1. vän-
vän- Baum, Holz (RV [InstrSg ven-a, GenP! van-äm, LokPi varı-su]; wohl GenSg *van-as in RV + vänas-päti- m. Baum; vgl. RV 2,4,5 van-ad-, wenn “holzfressend’, Schi, Wn 43, mit Lit.); früh thematisiert RV + vana- n. Baum, Holz, Wald, s. auch RV 3,1,13 vanö- f. Reibholz (vgl. Renou, EVP 12 [1964] 114); in Kompp. Reste eines Heteroklitons vänar-/vänan-, RV + vanar-säd- im Holze wohnend, RV + vanar-gü- im Wald streifend, … — [Mayrhofer, s.v. vän-, p. 528]
2. vaṇ
vaṇ (also written baṇ) cl. 1. P. vaṇati ( pf. vavāṇa &c.; Caus. aor. avīvaṇat, or avavāṇat), to sound, Dhātup. xiii, 3.
3. ثَن
1. van cl. 1. P. ( Dhātup. xiii, 19 ; 20 ; xix, 42 ) vanati ( Ved. also te, and vanati); cl. 8. P. Ā. ( xxx, 8 ) vanoti, vanute ( pf. vāvāna, vāvantha, vavanma, vavne; p. vavanvas, RV. ; aor. vanta, vaṃsva, ib. ; vaṃsat, sate, ib. ; vaniṣat, AV. ; ṣanta, TS. ; vanuṣanta, RV. ; Pot. vaṃsīmahi, vasīmahi, ib. ; Prec. vaniṣīṣṭa, RV. vaṃsiṣīya, AV. ; fut. vanitā Gr. ; vaniṣyate, ŚāṅkhŚr. ; inf. vanitum Gr. ; vantave, RV. ), to like, love, wish, desire, RV. ; AV. ; ŚBr. ; Kāṭh. ; ŚāṅkhŚr. ; to gain, acquire, procure (for one's self or others), RV. ; AV. ; ŚBr. ; to conquer, win, become master of, possess, RV. ; AV. ; to prepare, make ready for, aim at, attack, RV. ; to hurt, injure, MW. ( Dhātup. also ‘to sound’; ‘to serve, honour, worship, help, aid’) : Caus. vanayati or vānayati, Dhātup. xix, 68 ; xxxix, 33 v.l. ( cf. saṃvan) : Desid. vivāsati, te, to attract, seek to win over, RV. : Intens. (only vāvanaḥ and vāvandhi; but cf. vanīvan) to love, like, RV.
4. ثَن
2. van = vana (only in gen. and loc. pl. vanām, vaṃsu), ‘wood’ or ‘a wooden vessel’, RV.
5. ثَنe
vane loc. of 1. vana, in comp.